Improvement in steam atomizers



I. P. LEE-TE.

ATGMIZER.

No. 108,710. Patented Oct. 25, 1,870.

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ISAAC P. LEET-E, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 108,710, dated October 25, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM ATOMIZERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, IsAAo PLLEETE, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvanimhave invented certainmew and useful Improvements in Vaporometers; and I do hereby declare that the followiug is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being'had to. the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specificatiori.

The nature of my invention consists in the 'construction and arrangement of a vaporometer for the formation of, oxygenated medicated vapors, and atomizing fluids within a chamber from which they are to be inhaled.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention-appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in

which- Figure l-is 'a vertical section of the entire vaporometer;

. Figure 2 is a plan view of the inside of the receiving-chamber Figure 3 is a plan view of the, boiler, with its sevcral' attachments; and

Figure 4 is an enlarged side view of the atomizer.

A represents a boiler, of any suitable dimensions, through which is an aperture for the insertion of the retort B.

From the upper end of the retort B av pipe, (4-, leads upwardinto the receiving-chamber C,

From the boiler A, pipes b I), lead into smaller ehambers, D D, and from said clrambers,pipes, e e, lead up into the receiving-chamher G.

A single pipe, j; leads directfronr the boiler up into the receiving-chamber; and on said pipe, within the chamber, is placed the atomizer The pipes .b, b, and f are provided with stop-cocks, 11,11, and d, respectively.

In the center of the bottom of the receiving-chamber C is a small tube, h, leading upward for a short.

distance, thc upper end of which tube is provided with a perforated cover, as shown in fig. 2.

From the top of the receiving-chamber 0 leads a glass or metallic tube, G, provided with flexible'joints, 1'- 1, through which tube the vapors'are inhaled.

The chambcrsD 1) may be filled with sponge or other porous substance that will hold the medicine to be converted into vapor; .or, when the article is of so volatile a nature that'it can be converted into vapor by the steam passing among vials containing the medicine, such vial. may be placed in the said chambers; or, crudc medicines, whose virtues can be ex fracted b'y-steam, may be placed in said chambers,

the vapors or essential properties being conveyed to the receiving-chamber O.

The atomizer E is composed of.a curved tube, on, and a straight one, a, comrected by a brace, p.

The curved tube m is placed on'the steam-pipefl within the receiving-chamber, and the lower end of the straight tube a is placed in the medicine contained in a. receptacle, t.

The steam passing across the ripper end of tube it creates a vacuum, and said tube is at once'filled from the contents of the receptacle t. v

The 'force of the steam shatters theimedicines thus brought to the upper end of tube a into .a spray or mist, as shown in fig, 4;

The various uses to which'my apparatusrcan be put may be summed up as follows;

First, by charging the retort B with the material for generating oxygen and closing "stop-cocks, d d d, the receiving-chamber (i will be'filled with pure oxygen, which can be inhaled with atmospheric air admitted throughthe perforated tube oropening h.

Second, by then opening stop-cock d atomized medicines may beinhaled with the-oxygen.

Third, by lifling the retortB so .as to rest on the upper margin of the boiler A, I administer atomized medicines without the oxygen.

Fourth, without removing the retort from the po- 1 sition last mentioned anduclosing SBOP-c-Odkd', I open stop-cocks, (l d, and have medicated vapor. I

Filth. restore the retort B to the position indicated in the drawing, and the result is oxygcnized'medicated vapor.

mentioned under 4 and 5, and opening the stop-cock d, the chamber 0 is filled with,medicated Jvapor, oxygen, and atomized medicines.-

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new,'and desire to secure by'Let ters Patent, i s- 1. The boiler A, provided with the retort B, in com binafion with the receiving-chamberG, substantially as and for the purposes herein. set forth;

2. In combination w th the .boiler A and chamber 0, the chambers D D, arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

3." The atomizer E within the receiving-chamber C, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my Own, I afiix m y signature in presence of two witnesses ISAAC P. LEETE.

' \Vitnesses:

Eznn STOKES,

WM. 'A. BALDWIN.

Sirth,- with the stop-cocks and retort in the position. 

